Journeys Immigration
Pew Research: Foreign-Student Graduates Migrate to Bay Area En Masse
By Sharon Simonson Not wildfires, mudslides, or monster commutes; not overcrowded and expensive housing or gender-challenged workplaces. Nothing—so far—can keep them away: foreign students seeking U.S. …
San José Pulitzer Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen: We Are What We Write
By Sharon Simonson When seven-year-old Viet Thanh Nguyen arrived in San José with his parents and older brother in 1978 as a Vietnam War refugee, little did he know that his life’s next decade would form …
Creation Culture & Art
U.S.-Born Son of Refugees Tests San Jose’s Appetite for Next-Gen Viet Leaders
By Sharon Simonson April 6, EAST SAN JOSE — In college, Lan Diep told people to call him Ethan. He is probably the whitest Vietnamese man I had ever met, or would meet, he tells me. He dresses in khaki pants, …
Bay Area Professors’ Latin American Cookbook Tops Amazon Sales
San Francisco Bay Area professors Luz Calvo (right) and Catriona Rueda Esquibel want Mexican-Americans to reclaim their ancestral diet before the Spanish conquest.
To-Do Events
Court Sets 18-Day Trial for Chinese Professor Accused of Trade Theft
SAN JOSÉ—A U.S. District Court has set aside eighteen days beginning in late April for the trial of Chinese scientist Hao Zhang on criminal charges of trade-secret theft from two semiconductor companies with …
Rival Lawyers Claim Hao Zhang Evades Judge’s Orders
SAN JOSE—Two attorneys for Avago Technologies alleged that Hao Zhang, a Chinese scientist accused of stealing Avago trade secrets, has been violating federal court orders by communicating with a purported criminal …
San Jose Author: Being Vietnamese in America Not So ‘Eazy’
By Sharon Simonson SAN JOSE—For Vietnamese-American author Trami Nguyen Cron, the irony weighs heavy. Vietnamese people, whether refugees or immigrants, typically have fled their homeland for the United …
An Iranian-American Walks Common Ground with West Oakland’s Homeless
By Sharon Simonson The mean streets of West Oakland seem an odd place to uncover kinship and hope. But that’s what Iranian-American filmmaker Amir Soltani found as he made his 95-minute documentary, …
Deconstructing Dia de los Muertos
An altar for Dia de los Muertos, part of a larger exhibit on the fifth floor of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in downtown San Jose.
African Filmmakers in Silicon Valley Seek to Reframe the Continent
The Silicon Valley African Film Festival brings more than 40 narrative-fiction films, documentaries and animations by African filmmakers to Mountain View, Oct. 16-Oct. 18, including “Eye of the Storm.” …
Modi Speaks in San Jose: The Indian Prime Minister in His Own Words
The Indian prime minister asked his countrymen and women in Silicon Valley to help lift their nation.
Steps In Time
Leap cultural divides at “Dances of Devotion” on Saturday, Sept. 19, with Indian classical dancer Lavanya Ananth (back) and Cambodian classical dancer Charya Burt.
OneWorldCities
Little Cesar Chavez Chapel in the Parking Lot
Was this the right place? The National Historic Landmark dedicated a mere twelve months ago to Cesar Chavez, the most significant Latino leader in the United States in the twentieth century? Was this 2020 East San …
70,000 New Homes But Still Not Enough
By Sharon Simonson Same as it ever was. Even with nearly 70,000 new homes built in the Bay Area in the last five years, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data, 2015 population counts exclaim the continuing and …
Oh Baby! San Francisco Births on the Rise
State demographers said San Francisco, San Mateo and Alameda counties would experience declining births. They were wrong. By Sharon Simonson With wildly expensive housing and poorly perceived public schools, San …
Said Elsewhere on the Web
Growth Happening Here
By Sharon Simonson More Texas cites are growing faster than any others in the nation, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. But the East Bay's Dublin and Milpitas, with land to develop and existing …
San Jose City Adds Vietnamese-American Small Business Advisor
By Sharon Simonson Xuan Ha, former director of San Jose's Vietnamese American Business Association, has joined the city of San Jose’s Small Business Ally Program as a small business coach. She speaks fluent …
Berkeley Workers Bike More Than Anyone Else
By Sharon Simonson A greater proportion of people bike to work in Berkeley than in any other American city with a population of 100,000 or more, according to new calculations from the U.S. Census Bureau. Work …